[Ubuntu] GRASS 7.0.5 and the GDAL GRASS plugin

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 10/03/2016 01:31 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 10/02/2016 11:53 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> GRASS 7.0.5 has been released and the Debian packages have been updated
>> accordingly and uploaded to unstable. Martin will likely soon update the
>> grass package in ubuntugis-unstable.
>>
>> Because of the tight version requirements for the GDAL GRASS plugin,
>> whenever a new GRASS version is uploaded the libgdal-grass package needs
>> to be rebuilt with that version.
>>
>> For the changes required see this commit for the libgdal-grass 2.1.1
>> package in Debian:
>>
>>  https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/gdal-grass.git/commit/?id=cca9c46f23e0c33e2333fe2afb69c49925d75568
>>
>> The incremented version in the build dependencies and the virtual GRASS
>> ABI package are required for the package in UbuntuGIS too. UbuntuGIS
>> still uses GDAL 2.1.0 instead of 2.1.1 as in Debian, so the GDAL version
>> does not need to be incremented nor should the 2.1.1 version from Debian
>> be used (updating GDAL to a new version requires a rebuild of its
>> reverse dependencies).
>>
>> I've prepared branches for UbuntuGIS in gdal-grass git repository on
>> Alioth which only need to be updated for GRASS 7.0.5:
>>
>>  https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/gdal-grass.git/log/?h=ubuntu/trusty
>>  https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/gdal-grass.git/log/?h=ubuntu/xenial
>>
>> The procedure to create these branches using the source packages from
>> Launchpad is now also documented in the Debian GIS policy:
>>
>>  https://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/policy/packaging.html#git-import-dsc
>>
>> There is currently no libgdal-grass package for xenial in the
>> ubuntugis-unstable repository, so adding it now is a good opportunity.
>> I've prepared the ubuntu/xenial branch using the packaging from OSGeo-Live.
>>
>> I've also updated the transition trackers for UbuntuGIS which currently
>> shows libgdal-grass as bad for trusty because it doesn't depend on the
>> grass705 virtual ABI package yet. The tracker for xenial doesn't include
>> libgdal-grass because the package is not available for xenial yet:
>>
>>  http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/ubuntugis-unstable/trusty/html/grass.html
>>  http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/ubuntugis-unstable/xenial/html/grass.html
>>
>> @Martin, will you update libgdal-grass along with grass for 7.0.5 as
>> I've done for Debian?
> 
> The UbuntuGIS branches for libgdal-grass have been updated for GRASS
> 7.0.5, but they cannot be built yet because the published grass packages
> haven't found their way into the Packages files on the Launchpad APT
> repository and are hence unavailable to cowbuiler chroots.

The grass 7.0.5 packages are now available in the Launchpad APT
repository, so I've rebuilt and uploaded the libgdal-grass packages for
ubuntugis-unstable & -experimental.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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